AN GAODHAL.
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'Gus rath maith air do shliocht,
'Gus do scoláiridhe mar an g-ceudna,
Leis an t-sollus a thabhairt amach,
Ná rabh tú tinn, gan biseach,
A chara mhaith, gan bhréig,
Go bh-feicfidh tú do námhaid síos
Le púdar úr na Gréig'.
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sí Éire d'easbhadh bíth, ach na fataidh du¬
bha, lobhtha go laethamhuil, & d'a bhárr sin,
d'fhullaing ar g-cáirde anacur & anshógh
& fuair na mílte bás le h ais an chloidhe
le ocrus, & uaigh gan cónra ar a gcorp.
Ní h-iongnamh uaman do bheith air
Rapaighibh Righeacht na h-Éireann, & go
m-beidheadh na deora teotha, sáillte ag
teacht ó na súilibh le brise croidhe.
A Ghaodhlaibh, focal nó dhó eile: Má's
fíor go bh-fuil cúig agus fiche milliún d'
ar g-cáirdibh caite in sa tír mhór seo,
Éire Mhór, & ar sagairt le anmanna
Gaodhlach ortha, & gan focal Gaedhilge
acu le seanmóir do thabhairt dúinn Dia
Domhnaidh in ar d-teanga féin.
Leat a g-comhnuidhe,
M. Ua Donnuigh.
In referring to the Philadelphia Hibernian in the
last issue, a big typographical bull was made. In¬
stead of saying that the Hibernian progressed in
public favor by becoming a bi-weekly, as was int¬
ended, and as the facts demanded, the types had it
bimonthly.
O'Curry's Lectures.
ON THE
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL OF ANCIENT IRISH HIS¬
TORY.
LECTURE VIII.
[Delivered July 7, 1856.].
old books, such as die, which is the same as dia,
and cia is the same as cie.”
This valuable preface closes with a few exam¬
ples of contractions, which are intelligible only to
the eye.
These are all the works I know of by Michael
O'Clery.
Of the old writings of Conaire O'Clery, brother
of Fathers Bernardine and Michael, and who tran¬
scribed the chief part of the fair copy of the An¬
nals of the Four Masters now in the Royal Irish
Academy, I have not been so fortunate as to disco¬
ver any trace beyond his part in that work.
In the beautiful handwriting of Cucoigcriche
(Coigry or Peregrine) O'Clery, we have, besides
his part of the Annals of the Four Masters, a few
specimens preserved in the library of the Royal
Irish Academy. We have :—
1. A copy (evidently made for his own use) of
the Leabhar Gabhala, a Book of Conquests, alrea¬
dy mentioned.
2. A copy of the topographical poems of O'Dug¬
an and O'Huidhrin, together with some other an¬
cient historical poems.
3. A book of the genealogies and pedigrees of
the great Irish races, as also of the Geraldines,
Butlers, etc.
In the volume in which these pieces are
preserved, the last article is the Last Will and
Testament of Cucoigry O'Clery himself, written
in Gaedhlic, in his usual beautiful hand, on a
small quarto sheet of paper, and dated at Cuirrna
Heillthe, in the Co. Mayo, on the 6th of Februay
1664, which must have been, I should think, some
five or six years before his death,
The will begins in the usual way. — "In the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost; and after ordering that his body
should be buried in the Monastery of Buirgheis
Umhaill, or whatever other consecrated church
his friends might choose, he proceeds to bequeath
the property most dear to him of all that he had
acquired in this world, namely, his books, to his
two sons, Dermait and John, to be used by them
as their necessities should require. And he direc¬
ted that the books should be equally at the ser¬
vice of the children of his brother Cairbre, with a
charge that his sons and his nephews should in¬
sruct their children in the acquaintance and use
of these books,
He appears to have very little property besides
to leave to his sons, and they do not seem to have
much increased it. The last recognized member
of his descendants, the late John O'Clery, died
quite a young man in Dublin about four years a¬
go. This John was the son of John O'Clery, who
was many years gate-clerk at the gas works in
Great Brunswick Street in this city.
To him the books that we have been speaking of
did actually come down by lawful descent; and,
having brought them to Dublin about the year
1817, they subsequently passed from his hands
into those of the late Edward O'Reilly, at the sale
of whose books they were fortunately bought for
the Libray of the Royal Irish Academy by Dr.
Petrie.
With his other literary accomplishments, here¬
ditary and acquired. Cucoigry O'Clery appears to
have been no mean adept in the poetic art of his
country. I have in my own possession two poems
